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When completed, the synopsis, review, and evaluation are assembled and fronted with a cover page that lists the script’s vital information (author’s name, story genre, time and locations it which it takes place, length of the script, etc.) and contains a brief summary of the story and the review. The cover page usually includes a checklist in which the script’s various aspects are rated on a scale ranging from poor to excellent. Finally, the cover page highlights the analyst’s ultimate recommendation.

Coverage is sometimes mistaken for notes. There are even independent script development services that offer coverage services. However, suggestions about how to improve specific aspects of a script are called development notes. There are many reputable services that provide development notes as well as access to studios and producers, such as Script-Fix and [http://www.screencraft.org/send-screenplay-hollywood-producer/ ScreenCraft].

Although script coverage is a tool used primarily by motion picture production entities, it is sometimes used by screenwriting competitions as a way of separating "wheat from chaff." The coverage done for script competitions is usually simpler than that done for production companies—substituting a logline (a brief 1 or 2 line summary of the story) for the synopsis and simplifying the assessment—often employing only the checklist rating of the script’s various aspects.